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Multimedialover on 15 August 2013
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Dr.Grass said:
Multimedialover said:

The Xbox One is really looking like an amazing system. From every aspect. Games, multimedia  and socially.

1. $499 gets you a full blown Dev kit. Making a full mod comunity a real posibility for the first time in console history.

2.Massive focus on core gamers. Hugely varied first year lineup. Big budget AAA games.

3. Not only is the console a dev kit, but comes with 3 different control methods out of the box at no extra cost.

4. Powerful insides with the ability out of the box to take advantage of Cloud rocessing as that becomes moree and more accessible over the next 2-3 years.

5. The ability to handle true multitasking and instant switching.

6. Innovations like pulse triggers on the controller and a revolution in rumble feedback.

7. HDMI in/out. Big possibilities here through software.

8. Xbox Live Arcade. Its untouchable, especially now dev kits are available to everyone. Microsofts investment into XBLA games like Brothers : A Tale of Two sons is incredible. XBLA has so many higgh budget exclusives this gen and next.

9. XBL ecosystem and  userbase.

10. HAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO


1. What does it being a dev kit have anything to do with a "mod community"? Considering the stringent rules in place for indies and devs on 360, I highly doubt whether modding will become anything worth talking about at all. What you CAN do is develop your own games, but I'm very sorry to say that most (and my guestimate includes you) gamers don't know jack shit about programming. You do know that YABASIC was included with the PS2? And that the NET-Yaroze was a full blown PSOne dev kit? SO your point about modding makes little sense, but more people will have the opportunity to develop games now. It's a nice-to-have.

2. This is also true for the competition. If you were to argue that it's more true in MS's case, then I'd point to the software output on the 360 the last 4 YEARS to give reason for my skepticism.

3. Mentions same thing as #1, then... Well ok then. Have that one. But few people are really that interested are they?

4. "Powerful insides". Do you blame me for doubting your ability to use the dev-kit functionality? And I haven't heard ANY third party tech-expert or dev claim that the cloud will improve a game at run-time. I've only heard tons of skepticism. This thing is largely accepted as a PR-speak marketing tool. And where do you get the "2-3 years" from? You're just making stuff up man.

5. Not a new thing at all is it? You should see my 2-year old laptop when hooked up to the TV do a metric-ton of shit at the same time. Not to mention that there's little differentiation between the Xbox One and the competition on this front.

6. "revolution"? Really? It's going to be nice that the triggers rumble- sure. Hardly a killer feature in anyone's book.

7. Big possibilities like what? Plugging your old console in? Or your cable box? We know what this is for. Do you think the PS4 doesn't have any high-bandwidth inputs?

8. "Xbox Live Arcade. Its untouchable" LOL WUT. http://indiegameinsider.com/2013/06/10/indie-developers-flock-to-sony/

9. Nothing   here folks.

10.Halo (played and loved it), Halo 2 (played and loved it), Halo 3 (was underwhelmed), ODST (meh), Reach (pretty cool), Halo 4 (definitely AAA, but it's wearing thin). So yeah. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Get your guns AGAIN and save the universe AGAIN and through sticky bombs AGAIN. It's a valuable IP, but come on, we are drowning in FPS games.

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I wonder if you're even going to read all of that. That's really a weak list you've put together. You missed more important things like:

- Dedicated servers

- Wifi-direct (huge bandwidth there)

- a few other things that I don't care about.

My conclusion is that you're pretty much going to praise every single thing MS does and hail it as the king, no matter what they do. If they had more RAM, more powerful GPU, lower price, more 1st party studios, no-kinect etc. you'd be proclaiming their superiority due to these.

In other words, you come across as a rabid fanboy par excellence. I still think you're Selnor btw.

Its an interesting annotation of attack that you choose. Dismissing things as either a) nothing special or b) something noone cares for. 

Microsoft have been asked about modding already. The answer was massively positive. 

The rest seems like a Sony fanboy response. So I wont even bother. As the PS4 is lacking alot of stuff for me.

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